15 comments:

This is good stuff. The people around you us do draw us into their habits. I believe that is a talent that makes tribal living work. But the tribes faults are replicated along with its strengths. Ann Coulter says the Dems carefully rely on this human instinct to get mobs going along with them on any idea. When a group is immune to this manipulation effect they get targeted as a hated scapegoat. The Hebrew people, who think God's words in Torah, get easily targeted, and Obama and his friends have obviously targeted the Israel's Leadership and the Land they live in. So refusing to let stupidity contagion to infect you draws attacks from stupid enemies.

This just confirms that mass consumption of mass media stupidity like the Real Housewives of Stepford is indeed making us stoopider. Too bad old Joe Kennedy didn't have Snooki and the Kardashians for poor Rosemary. She wouldn't have needed the lobotomy.

The ability of external stimuli to influence our perception of reality should be obvious to anyone who watches an engrossing movie or reads a book, which is to say to everyone. Fortunately, the distortion of reality, once the stimulus is removed, is short-lived. When they say a book can take you to far away places, they were not entirely exaggerating the effect.